The lunch on the grass, a bridge towards modernity

Abstract

Analysis  of  lunch  on  the  grass  of  Manet  highlighted  the importance of the painting in the history of contemporary art, for its direct influence on the mainstream avant-garde pictorial. The elements as the disposal of characters and objects, the use of the color, the amalgam of forms, the clothing of them figures secondary, as well as the nudity of the protagonist whose image current contrasts with the romanticism pictorial dominant. They become the homage that makes the female body ground-breaking figure and one of the first representatives of the surrounding realism at a time declining. The work shows the relationship pragmatic of it classic with it modern because symbolizes the own reality of the author inserted in the middle. The reflection of their dissatisfaction with the established catapults him as reference for a model of daring art, a pictorial proposal backed by the theories and techniques of Renaissance and Baroque art but transformed by their identity and futuristic vision.